Mads Bech Sørensen

Biography

Mads Bech Sørensen (Danish pronunciation: ; born 7 January 1999), sometimes known as Mads Bech, is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Danish Superliga club FC Midtjylland. Bech began his career in his native Denmark with AC Horsens and transferred to Brentford in 2017. Largely a fringe player during six years in England, he returned to Denmark to join FC Midtjylland in 2023. Bech was capped by Denmark at youth level. Bech won his maiden call into the Denmark U18 squad in September 2016 and made 7 appearances during the 2016–17 season, captaining the team and scoring once in a 4–2 friendly victory over Belarus U18 on 18 October. He was promoted into the U19 squad in January 2017 and made two appearances during the remainder of the 2016–17 season. In mid-August 2017, Bech was named as captain of the Denmark U19 squad for the 2017 Four Nations Tournament, in which he made two appearances. Bech appeared in six of the 10 matches during the U21 team's successful 2021 European U21 Championship qualifying campaign and he was named in the squad for the Finals. He started each of Denmark's group matches and scored in a 2–0 win over Iceland U21 on 28 March 2021. Injury saw Bech replaced in the squad for the knockout stages, though his group stage performances were such that he was named in the Squad of the Tournament. On 24 May 2022, Bech won his maiden call-up to the senior team when he was named in the initial 29-man squad for four 2022–23 Nations League A matches in June 2022. He was cut from the final 26-man selection. Bech began his sporting career as a handball player, before switching to football. He is an Arsenal supporter.